Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

From	Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration
Date	2016-06-05 15:20 +0200
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On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Before you start, print /etc/passwd and /etc/group. :-)
>
> When forced to create a user during installation, I create user x with
> passwd
> x, and the first thing I do on first boot is login as root and delete user
> x.
> I then install mc and do my "tidy up" before creating the group(s) I want
> and
> then use a script to create users, followed by setting users' initial
> passwds.
>
>
/etc/passwd and /etc/group are still the last word in identities in these
latter days of password shadowing and gawd alone knows what else?

(My own research suggests the answer is YES for what users are on the
system and NO for passwords. I'm not doing anything funky like using LDAP
or anything for passwords, just what comes out of the box when you install
Debian)

Mark

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Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 13:20 +0200
  Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-06-04 14:40 +0200
    Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-06-04 21:00 +0200
  Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-06-04 22:40 +0200
    Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 13:50 +0200
      Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-05 14:40 +0200
        Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 15:20 +0200
          Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-06-05 15:50 +0200
        Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-06-05 16:10 +0200
          Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 17:00 +0200
      Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-06-06 00:30 +0200
        Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 16:20 +0200
          Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-06-09 20:40 +0200
          Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-06-10 12:20 +0200
            Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 16:30 +0200
  Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-06-10 12:30 +0200

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